In terms of popularity, nerdcore occupies a space somewhere between underground hip-hop and the end of the universe, according to rapper and educator Mega Ran. Nerdcore is a brand of hip-hop ...

Damian Hess, better known by his stage name MC Frontalot, is an Brooklyn-based hip-hop performer, web designer and professional geek. He was a musical guest on Wyatt Cenac's Night Train, a judge on ...

MC Frontalot — the rapper credited for defining the hip-hop subsect of “nerdcore” — is back this April with his fourth album, and the leadoff track, quite appropriately, is an anthem written for Wil ...

Since coining the term “nerdcore” in 2000 to describe his corner of the hip-hop universe, MC Frontalot has come to be defined by his Comic-Con-friendly subject matter. Over the years, the ...

Finally, someone’s making beats dedicated to all the skinny, pimply, white nerds out there. White (as in skin color) boys have long had a place up on hip-hop stages, but hip-hop has never really ...

If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. Learn more. When Mama Hess birthed her little boy Damian some 37 years ago, little did she realize that he would become the ...

MC Frontalot is a 30-something former web designer, graduate of Wesleyan University, and a current resident of Brooklyn. He' s also at the forefront of the hip-hop genre known as "nerdcore." MC ...

And they all lived rap-pily ever after. Hip-hop musician MC Frontalot is best known as the godfather of nerdcore rap — a genre that mixes hip-hop with geeky topics such as video games and good grammar ...

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